Madhesi tribe

For Nepalese ethnic people, see Madhesi people.

Madhesi

File:Madhesi tribe.jpg Madhesi Istet Woiche (aka William Hulsey) 1923
Regions with significant populations
United States	1,500 - Madhesi Valley (Big Bend), Pit River, California
Languages
English and Achumawi
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Achomawi and Madhesi people
San Diego State Univ.

The Madhesi tribe (pronounced as Mah dhay see), also written as Madesi people are the Pit River tribes and an indigenous Native Americans who lived in what is now Madhesi Valley in northeastern California of the United States. There are eleven autonomous bands (also called "tribelets") of the Pit River tribe, Madhesi is the one of them who natively spoke various dialects of one common language, and the other two bands spoke dialects of a related language, called by anthropologists Atsugewi. "Madhesi" is the ethnic identity of the tribal peoples whose territory was historically along the Madhesi Valley and the Pit River from the south end of Big Valley Mountains, westerly to Pit River Falls. The other ten tribes that shared the Achomawi language also had a historic homeland located along other parts of the Pit River. Their territory extended from Madhesi Valley to Goose Lake. This land was also home to the Atsugewi language group, which consisted two distinct tribes of what is now unified as the Pit River Tribe, and who lived south of the Achomawi language bands in the Hat Creek valley and Dixie Valley. There are 11 bands in the Pit River Tribe including Achomawi, Aporidge, Astariwawi, Atsuge, Atwamsini, Hanhawi, Hewisedawi, llmawi, Itsatawi, Kosalextawi, and of course the Madhesi.